There are probably several cities LeBron enjoys. That doesn’t mean he’s leaving the Heat.

The Clippers are a non-starter unless Donald Sterling no longer owns the team. Although that seems likely before next season, it might not be sewn up before LeBron is ready to sign. Even if Sterling is ousted in time, the Clippers have no cap room. LeBron would have to convince Pat Riley to do a sign-and-trade, probably based around Blake Griffin.

The Lakers have bottomed out, and LeBron alone won’t make them stronger than the Heat were with him. Kobe Bryant is no longer the player he once was, and his salary drastically limits the Lakers’ options. If LeBron wants a situation like that, he might as well stick with Dwyane Wade. Maybe Carmelo Anthony also joining the Lakers would interest LeBron, but again, why not just do that in South Beach?

LeBron has been conspicuously mum about whether he will even terminate his contract to become a free agent this offseason. Asked last night about his decision, he said, “I haven’t even really thought about that just yet.”

Until he does, we’re left just grasping at clues about his future. His fondness for Los Angles is one piece, but in the bigger puzzle, it probably doesn’t mean much.

He’ll never go to LA. Too much pressure. Too many great players to follow: Magic, Kareem, Shaq, Chamberlin, Kobe…. He needs to be somewhere with a soft media (Miami) & clueless fan base (Miami) to continue his fake legacy.

He’ll never go to LA. Too much pressure. Too many great players to follow: Magic, Kareem, Shaq, Chamberlin, Kobe…. He needs to be somewhere with a soft media (Miami) & clueless fan base (Miami) to continue his fake legacy.
Sounds someone was weened off mommy’s nipple a little too soon, wow, Hater in the house

Just because someone gives an opinion that doesn’t make them a hater, which is becoming the most overused word in the English language. The REAL cantonbound13 has a point, following in the footsteps of LAKER greats can not be easy (see Dwight Howard). In L.A. he would be “expected” to win “titles”, not like anywhere else where they “hope” to win one title.

Dwight Howard left because he didn’t want to play for an idiot coach or with a selfish, washed-up former superstar who puts his own ego above team camaraderie. But keep believing it was because the Lakers legacy was too much for him to handle. LOL.

Too much pressure? LeBron James has been to the Finals 4 straight years. That’s pretty impressive and I’m not sure how going to L.A. puts MORE pressure on him. I’m not a LeBron fan, but a basketball fan. I hate when people use absolutely ridiculous reasons to knock the guy. Any team in the league would love to add LeBron to their roster.

Of the 10 years he’s been in the league, he’s taken a team to the Finals 5 of them…

The Spurs don’t have the cap space and they don’t need him. If I was LeBron, Chicago would be the number 1 destination for me to consider. Great team, Great Coach, and the Eastern Conference is obviously the weaker of the two Conferences.

@kb2408 @cantonbound if you don’t think your a hater you should look up the term you two idiots. Neither of you 2 are fans your just against a team or player. I noticed there were multiple articles about the lakers and Knicks last week and neither of you made even one post. You clearly don’t care about the team you say you like but more about down grading the accomplishments of another team or player.
Hence the term hater.

Way to cherry pick through his list though, lol. The rest of those guys changed teams in the prime of their careers, and Olajuwon was a pain in the neck for management about getting traded until they won their first championship or am I the only one who remembers that? Barkley flat out quit on Philly until they traded him to Phoenix, and then he did it again to get to Houston to try to chase a ring like Drexler, but was too late because MJ came back. Want to keep going? It’s not 1971 anymore, and even back then, players changed teams all the time. I suggest the rest of you get used to it.

How did LeBron not make the game of basketball better? He is the most unselfish elite scorer this league has ever seen. Gone are the days where star players thought greatness = chucking the ball 30 times hoping to average 30 points a game.

James ushered in a new era where star players know they have to be efficient, complete and unselfish if they want to hold the title as the best player in the league.

No, you’re just being a hater. LeBron got the entire basketball world, and even players, taking efficiency seriously. Now it’s reached a level where it’s not just serious, but essential. That doesn’t happen without him being the shining example. And players like KD and Bosh just talk about efficiency now. They’ll say that they don’t care about other stats.

No one talked about efficiency when MJ was playing. I remember, I was there – with MJ it was all about scoring and scoring titles. Kobe and Iverson are of that era – they’re chuckers because they grew up on MJ and were programmed to think that individual scoring = greatness.

Iverson did change the game in a certain way with his style, but he didn’t change the way people think of the game like James did.

You think that’s what that means when someone innocuously uses the term “bro”? I could’ve said my boys or my dudes or my guys. It’s not meant to be taken literally. It just means that I appreciate them.

Ok, well listen gramps – the next time you see someone post something like, “I love Steph Curry and Klay Thompson. Those guys are my boys!” Understand that they are is not trying to convince people that they’re actually friends with Steph Curry and Klay Thompson. It’s just another way to express their fandom.

YOU were claiming that “no one knew what was going to happen in games 4 and 5 in the FINALS even though the stats showed you were crazy.
YOU were claiming that the Heat would make an epic comeback.
YOU were spouting off at the mouth about how the Heat actually outplayed the Spurs in 2 games this series. I remember it all.
and if YOU want me to stop… stop posting.

Shaq was the biggest ringchaser of them all. Left the lakers to play with Wade, went to the Suns,
to play with Nash, went to Cleveland to “get a ring for the King”, went to of all places Boston.
It was ridiculous!!

Lebron MUST stay in Miami because he owes D.Wade for helping him win championships. This has to be Riley’s thinking and every Heat fan as well. Lebron is going to want to get paid his worth. I don’t think he’s in the mood to be coming back on a hometown discount. Unless Chris Bosh comes back for peanuts his Heat career is over.

I think what a lot of people are forgetting is free agency in the NBA didn’t start until the mid 90s so the stars from 70s, 80s and early 90s never had a choice to leave and explore their options. Its a different era players have much more control.

I just think that if he wants to get the help that he likes to have around him his next move should be out west. No disrespect to the Eastern Conference but The West is strong has superior ballers. Of course if he does go to the western conference that would probably mean that it would be awhile before the East wins another championship.